Showing posts with label 2012 porsche panamera s hybrid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012 porsche panamera s hybrid. Show all posts

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Infiniti takes us behind the scenes in World's Fastest Hybrid vid


Nissan apparently wants to get as much mileage as the "Duel" can be staged between its Infiniti M Hybrid and the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid. You will remember the location where the ribs M35h through the quarter-mile in less than 14 seconds, ahead of the Porsche hybrid. Infiniti has announced Guinness World Records is the fastest accelerating full hybrid last year, which served as inspiration for the shooting of the online advertising.

Now, a new video posted on YouTube and shows some behind the scenes of the filming of the ad. It's not exactly earth-shattering stuff, like the pieces we found most interesting were the pictures from the camera chase car, other than an Infiniti or a Porsche, but is actually a Mercedes-Benz M-Class.

While we liked the place, the second had others look at us with her ​​go-round. We always wonder about the effectiveness of your brand compared to others when it is made ​​clear, to try and rub some of this gloss on its own competitive identity. And so secure by throwing a name that we associate closely with obesity twins motorcycles? We may get the M hybrid, and we are happy to tend to look at it, but if Toyota really wants to impress, we would like to have some comparisons with competing products to see, like how they on a road course leads, or even how it fits with non-hybrid models.


Thursday, February 17, 2011

2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid unveiled ahead of Geneva debut *UPDATE


Porsche has just announced that it expanded its hybrid fleet with the addition of the Panamera S hybrid. Set in the next month Geneva Motor Show debut, the big sedan will come to the party package has a combined 380 hp, says a character Porsche is good enough to get the machine mph to 62 in six seconds flat on the way to a top speed of 168 miles per hour. A total of 333 of these ponies are derived from the company supercharged 3.0-liter V6 engine, while the remaining 47 hp will be operated by an electric motor. An eight-speed automatic transmission handles shifting detail, says Porsche, the Cayenne S can be operated either by the hybrid internal combustion engine or electric motor or clumps of them in tandem.
Power for the electric grinder is stored in a traditional nickel-metal hydride battery, and a regenerative braking system charges the cells during the delay. Overall, Porsche says the system is well combined 41.5 mpg on the UK-cycle of works on the 34.5 mpg here in the good old U.S. of A. Depending on how you carry one.
With the introduction of the Panamera S Hybrid, Porsche now offers a total of six variants of its sedan. These are the most recent herd will carry a prize of £ 86,146 in the UK (around 138k USD, but the UK has massive VAT), and so far the company has not said whether the U.S. can expect to get his hands on the car. However, we would be surprised if the new hybrid Panamera has not made its way across the pond at some point in the near future, given America's penchant for gas-electrics. Hit the jump for the full press release.
* UPDATE: Porsche has announced that the Panamera S hybrid to the U.S. led, and that when it arrives, it will carry a price of $ 95,000 without destination. Look at the new model to see our shores later this year. Check out the new press release after the jump.